Ofcom offers little hope to Royal Mail

Under Ofcom's proposals, 'Royal Mail has a monopoly of the work, while other companies get a share of the profits'. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

 

Royal Mail has a new regulator, but its proposals fail to protect the service from privatisation and unfair competition

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Friday 28 October 2011 08.00 BST

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When Royal Mail modernisation means a worse service

A walk-sequencing machine

New sorting machines have taken the last skill from our job and pushed back delivery times. More change, not for the better

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